"The police were contacted and it transpired the BMW belonged to the defendant's sister and he hadn't asked her permission before taking it from the home they shared. He was not insured to drive the vehicle.

"When interviewed he accepted he took the keys from the kitchen without asking and assumed he was insured to drive the vehicle because he had driven it before."

KFC

Kular, of Houghton Street, Hanley, pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without the owner's consent and driving without insurance.

Debbie Leadbeater, mitigating, said: "He wanted to get some KFC. He had driven the car in the past but did not know his sister had taken him off her insurance when he got his own car, which he no longer has. If he had asked her to borrow the vehicle she would have told him that. He's very sorry for everything that's happened."